Republican Senator Has a Plan to Stop Foreigners From Abusing Surrogacy for US Citizenship Purposes
13th November 2025
I wasn’t aware that that was a thing.
China and other foreign adversaries are abusing American birthright citizenship to have American children through surrogacy. But one Republican Senator has a plan to criminalize the growing surrogacy industry for foreigners.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., recently introduced a bill called the Stopping Adversarial Foreign Exploitation of Kids in Domestic Surrogacy (SAFE KIDS) Act that would prevent adversarial nations, specifically China, from using and taking advantage of American women to obtain U.S. citizenship for their child.
I wonder how long it took to make up a name for the bill that worked out to a catchy acronym.
“[Surrogacy] should never be the avenue to allow abuse, neglect, or deceit of innocent women and babies,” Sen. Rick Scott said in a press release. “And it’s terrifying that this might be at the hands of foreign adversaries with the sole intent of having a child that is a U.S. citizen.”
End birthright citizenship and it wouldn’t be a problem. The distinguished gentleman is treating the symptom, not the disease.